Schulstraße 18
73207 Plochingen
Germany
Alemannia Judaica’s origins trace back to the late 1980s. In May 1988, a group with plans to form a network gathered in the city of Freiburg, in southern Baden. The group had already established close relationships to Switzerland and Alsace. In 1992, they met with Jewish history scholars from Württemberg and Vorarlberg. The goal: to found a common network. On 24 May 1992, the founding meeting of the Alemannia Judaica Working Group was held in the town of Hohenems, in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. A Jewish museum had just been opened the previous year, making it a particularly auspicious birthplace.
The group’s name refers to the focus of its work, the “Alemannic” linguistic region in the southwest of German-speaking Europe (Baden-Württemberg, Alsace, German-speaking Switzerland, Vorarlberg, and Bavarian Swabia). The working group’s members include numerous institutions in these regions that have emphasized revisiting Jewish regional and local history as well as private individuals who care deeply about local remembrance work.
At the founding meeting in Hohenems, the decision was made to reconvene annually. At each of these conferences, the working group’s members came together at a new location featuring sights from Jewish history, where members could familiarize themselves with remembrance work happening on the ground. In 2003, the group decided to operate a joint website: www.alemannia-judaica.de. This website’s content serves as an important resource for the Jewish Places website.
Alemannia Judaica: Working Group for Research into the History of Jews in Southern Germany and Neighboring Regions
Point of contact: Dr. Joachim Hahn
Schulstraße 18
73207 Plochingen, Germany